Brindle Boxer

My cousin needed a home for his dog. I volunteered to take care of her. She was six years old already. She was well trained very happy very loving. This was the smartest animal I had ever met. I was often astonished by her understanding of the English language. Anything I said to this dog she would do. My brother was visiting once and we got into a fight. As we were scuffling my dog came up and bit me. I didn’t understand why she bit me and not him. Another time I was in an argument with a friend of mine and again she bit me. Somebody said that they thought she was doing it because she didn’t want me acting in such a way. I decided to take steps and not put myself in argumentative or physical altercations. Then my beautiful boxer dog was the happiest dog I’ve ever seen.She would run in my front yard and leap over the sidewalk. During the leap she would do a total 360. I just thought this was so adorable she never wasn’t adorable. She had a bunch of toys as in dog toys. Out of all her toys she played with zero of them. There was a 2 inch long mini mouse stuffed animal. This was her toy she would throw it up in the air and catch it in her mouth then jump over the sidewalk doing a 360. She would take the mini mouse to her bed and put it under her blanket so no one could find it. She had this small stuffed toy The entire time I had her. My cousin later told me that as a puppy she would chew up all the stuffed animals of his kids. Then at about two years old she started dragging the stuffed animals to her bed. She would bark at people growl at people and not let them anywhere near her bed or the stuffed animals. He explained that she started lactating. And they had to have her spayed in order to get the aggression to stop. The vet explained that she was lactating and showing the aggression because she was under the impression that these stuffed animals were her children.Once she was fixed the situation was fixed as well. I would walk with my dog with no leash. We would come to an intersection which was a Highway and as we would approach the intersection I would simply say “Whoa doggy” Even the first time I said this she stopped in her tracks looked up at me and waited. When it was time to proceed and continue walking I would say “Get along little doggie” she would look up at me jump in the air then proceed to takeoff running across the street. This animal always seemed to be smiling. And when I had my pet boxer I was Surely always smiling. I moved to a small town 12 miles north of my hometown. When I did this Mia moved with me. After about nine months of being in this town my dog began to have seizures. This went on for three months. Then finally she had a seizure that messed her up. She no longer was able to get up and use the restroom normally and would not eat. I took her to the vet and the vet informed me that she had developed tumors in her frontal lobe. I personally blame the small towns water supply due to a huge amount of alkaloids in the water. Either way I miss my dog every single day.